Over the weekend, Tufts hosted the annual Last Chance Meet at the Gantcher Center. This meet, which features competition from all across the country, gives athletes on the bubble one final shot at qualifying for the NCAA Div. III National Championships next weekend in Grinnell, Iowa.Senior quad-captain ...
The squash season officially came to an end this past weekend for both the men's and women's teams as first-year Aidan Porges of the men's team and senior captain Paget Stanco of the women's team competed in the College Squash Association (CSA) Individual Nationals. Unfortunately for ...
In the January transfer window, one league surpassed all others in total spending. Take a guess. The Premier League you say? Nope. La Liga? The Bundesliga? Serie A? Ligue 1? Keep guessing. Alright I’ll tell you: it was the Chinese Super League.Following Chinese president Xi Jinping’s vision of China becoming a soccer superpower, wealthy owners started to splash the cash. High profile names such as Ramires (bought for £21 million from Chelsea), Jackson Martinez (bought for £31 million from Atlético Madrid) and Alex Teixeira (bought for £38 million from Shakhtar Donetsk) all moved to clubs in the far east. The CSL not only outspent the Premier League by over £19 million, it also outspent the other four major European leagues combined by almost £60 million.
The No. 2-seeded Trinity Bantams ended the No. 8-seeded Tufts Jumbos' Cinderella story postseason by handing them a 4-3 loss on Saturday in the NESCAC semifinals. For the Bantams, the win avenged last season's 2-1 defeat in the first round of the playoffs at the hands of the bottom-seeded Jumbos, ...
This month, 68 Div. I basketball teams will enter a single elimination tournament. Sixty-seven of these teams' seasons will end in a loss. Sixty-seven separate times, senior students that have dedicated an incomprehensible amount of their life to the sport will weep when the clock hits zero. Just ...
The reigning NESCAC and NCAA Div. III national champions opened their season with a tense 14-13 victory over Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday. The Jumbos went into the final quarter two goals down but managed to outscore the Ducks 4-1 in the final quarter to claim the win.Face-off expert ...
For the fifth year in a row the Jumbos are headed to the third round of the NCAA women's basketball championship in hopes of finally breaking through to the title game. After double-digit wins against Regis (Mass.) College on Friday and Moravian College on Saturday, No. 7 Tufts is headed back ...
Seniors John Uppgren and Conor Helfrich made school history on Jan. 22 when they became the first two Tufts lacrosse players to be picked in the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Collegiate Draft. In previous years, Tufts players have been picked in the supplementary draft, but no Jumbo has ever achieved what ...
I was born on June 16, 1994, in New York City. At the time, the Rangers were playing for the NHL Stanley Cup, the Knicks were in the NBA Finals against the Rockets and even though there wasn’t an MLB World Series that year, I’m sure the Yankees had a good chance of winning it. In comparison to today, ...
Gone are the days when the Northeast was home to scintillating and committed football. Alan Shearer, David Ginola, Les Ferdinand, Lee Clark and Andy Cole were just some of the legendary players to have donned the stripes of Newcastle. None of this unbelievable football play appears to be on show these ...
As the co-author of the new sports psychology book, "This is Your Brain on Sports," Associate Professor of Psychology Sam Sommers is uniquely positioned to answer most questions about how athletes, coaches and fans think. But there is one subject that even he can't completely solve: ...
The women's basketball team won their NCAA Regional Championship, notching a pair of relatively easy victories to move on to the Sweet 16 for the fifth straight year and the sixth time in program history. Though the women's team was ranked No. 7 in the nation heading into the weekend, they could ...
Men's basketball survived a thrilling weekend of games to win the first NCAA Div. III Regional they've ever hosted at Cousens Gym and made it to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2006. Tufts staved off a late Southern Vermont rally on Friday night to win 78-76 before coming back against ...
The No. 20 Tufts men's basketball team will take on the Skidmore Thoroughbreds in the second round of the NCAA tournament this evening at 7 p.m. in Cousens Gym. The Jumbos survived a thriller of a first round of the first ever NCAA men's regional that they've hosted at Cousens last night, ...
This weekend marks the start of two momentous postseason journeys for Jumbos' basketball. For the No. 20 Tufts men's basketball team, it's the first time in history they will host NCAA tournament games at Cousens Gym. For the No. 7 Tufts women's basketball team, it's the quest to ...
It was the type of drama befitting a major sports league.The Portland Timbers' 2-1 title-winning victory away against Columbus Crew SC at Mapfre Stadium at the end of last season won the Timbers their first league title. The Timbers, the quintessential hipster team (think Portlandia with soccer), ...
The women’s lacrosse team made huge progress last year when it made it to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, despite losing 17-8 in a round at Franklin and Marshall College. Notwithstanding the defeat, it was the first time since 2011 that the program had made the NCAA tournament, a considerable ...
The roar of the Jumbo crowd last year on Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia marked the end of the NCAA Div. III National Championship as Tufts men's lacrosse became back-to-back national champions. In their 2015 season, the Jumbos had to overcome injuries of some of their leading players at ...
Junior diver Matt Rohrer is headed to the NCAA Championships for the third straight year after winning the NCAA Zone Regional three-meter competition and taking second in the one-meter last weekend. With his performance at the regionals at Wellesley College, Rohrer easily qualifies for the diving events ...
The Capital One Cup final this weekend, which featured Premier League giants Manchester City and Liverpool, took the form of a stereotypical cup final: thrilling but nerve-wracking. After plenty of squandered chances and a goal apiece for Fernandinho of Manchester City and Coutinho of Liverpool, it was 1-1 after 90 minutes. Extra time passed with both teams showing the ill-effects of a grueling Premier League season, and penalty kicks commenced. In stepped Willy Caballero. Coming off a performance against Chelsea in the FA cup that was shaky at best, it would be hard to blame the often-maligned Manchester City backup goalkeeper for being low on confidence. If he was, he didn’t show it. After Emre Can’s cheeky chip sent him the wrong way to start the shootout, Caballero saved three straight, including a full-extension finger tip save. After the game, the players hoisted Caballero in the air before hoisting the trophy together a few minutes later. As a Manchester City fan myself, I was elated for Caballero. Before the game, Caballero was asked how he felt about Manchester City fans wanting him dropped. After the game, they were singing his name.
